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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I guess that it depends on how you look at it. Police on the scene said that he's lucky to be alive. It's possible that the safety features on this car saved his life and kept his injuries to a minimum. It's possible that had he been driving any other car that he's be dead.
Another thing about most airbags, and maybe these are different, is that they inflate for only a few short seconds and then deflate. Their purpose is to prevent injuries from initial impact. I don't know that all of these airbags remained inflated until the car came to a stop
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You really have to ask yourself why they cannot design a car like a NASCAR race car. These guys get in crashes at over 200 MPH and walk away fine or with minor injuries. Yes, once in a great while one of them gets killed which can be expected at these speeds but overall they walk away and I don’t believe these cars have air bags. In a typical passenger car or SUV you would not need roll bars as big as those used in a race car so they could be easily hidden in the interior. Put in the air bags and probably no one would ever get killed.